Involvement would be good too. Get them to engage. Everybody’s in this together, sharing the road to a glorious destiny.

Nice thinking, but not about staff health is it?

More about souped-up performance. More commitment, longer hours, shorter weekends – the real price tag of the extra mile.

It’s the cliché of modern business. 18 hour days, always-on obsession, emails, social networks, the Internet – the non-stop work ethic.

No time for losers – or winners

Precisely where staff health takes a dive.

Because nobody, including you, can work without proper rest and downtime. To re-engage with family, friends and have a chance to be themselves. To feel what it is to be alive and free – away from the pressures of responsibility.

Eight hours a day is enough, mind and body need to recharge. Better than that, to unwind, relieve the tensions of the day – to relax, reset and reboot.

Without that balance, staff health quickly takes its toll.

Of course, nobody’s booking time off and taking to their bed. They’re not actually sick.

No, not actually – but partially.

Not enough sleep, they can’t concentrate so well. Tired and less resilient, fatigued bodies set them up for colds and flu. Rushed and missed meals make their systems glitch – gastric upsets, ulcers or worse.

Yes, they’re on deck and going for it, as committed as before. But focus is fuzzy, reactions are slowed, perceptions are blunted and reflexes not functioning.

Slow going

Sure, they’re still going the extra mile. Except now it takes longer, because heads aren’t quite right. More effort is needed, more mistakes get made, more things have to get done twice. Inevitably, everything costs more money.

And so it goes, day after day – staff health slowing you down and costing you money.

They are your Ferrari and you’re racing them untuned. Clogged injectors, carboned up manifolds, electronics out of adjustment – and you expect them to win.

Overlook staff health, and you really are for the pits.

Off-tune, off-song

Which is why being unwell at work costs ten times more than being absent and in bed.

Your prize performers are off-song and you’re paying for under-delivery.

57.5 days a year most staff are like that – almost three working months. At their desks, but going through the motions. Partially sick but pretending not to be. Or brazenly sneezing and toughing it out.

Either way, robbing you a quarter of a year’s worth of their capability.

Except it’s you robbing yourself, not putting staff health to the fore.

What if staff health was your No 1 priority – tuned and honed to top performance, ALL THE TIME?

For a start, you’d give them time. To be at ease and deliver their best, comfortably. No more stress, no more friction and relationships going south because there aren’t enough hours for care, consideration and patience.

No more physical illnesses either. They might all be a team and working on top of one another – but there’s no germs to spread, or lingering around. Any viruses or bacteria are eliminated after hours, by sterilising the place when everybody is relaxing.

Which is where staff health really starts paying dividends.

Feeling good and healthy, they really can be more revved up and committed. More bounce to the pounce – more capable of the extra mile, even inside normal business hours.

And guess what?

All about time

All it costs is time – which you were paying for anyway, remember those lost three months? Time, and a little effort making the place germ-free and safe – so your super-tuned thoroughbreds can perform without hazard.

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